Generation of orbital angular momentum beams using all-fiber photonic lanterns (Conference Presentation)

Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa; Sergio Leon-Saval; Zahoora Sanjabi Eznaveh; Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez; Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias; Giovanni Milione; Kai Shi; Benn Thomsen; David J. Richardson; Yongmin Jung

doi:10.1117/12.2292195

14 March 2018 Generation of orbital angular momentum beams using all-fiber photonic lanterns (Conference Presentation)

Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Sergio Leon-Saval, Zahoora Sanjabi Eznaveh, Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Giovanni Milione, Kai Shi, Benn Thomsen, David J. Richardson, Yongmin Jung

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Proceedings Volume 10549, Complex Light and Optical Forces XII; 105490T (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292195
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, have attracted great attention in recent years. An OAM beam with a phase singularity is characterized by a helical phase front which provides an additional degree of freedom for wide amount of classical and quantum optical applications. However, despite many attempts to generate and manipulate OAM beams, a robust, reliable and scalable technique to directly address generation, multiplexing and low-loss transmission of the distinct OAM beams is still in great demand. Here, we review the development of all-fiber, ring core photonics lantern mode multiplexer to generate high quality OAM beams up to the second order within a broad spectral range of >550 nm. Our device is a 5-mode mode selective photonic lantern (MSPL) with an annular refractive index profile which is fully compatible with well-established ring core and vortex transmission fibers. Through the excitation of pairs of degenerate linearly polarized (LP) modes of the MSPL, we demonstrate the generation of high quality OAM beams up to the second order. In addition, we demonstrate multiplexing of two OAM modes (OAM+1+ OAM-2) to verify complex beam pattern generation of our all fiber devices. Furthermore, by splicing the end-facet of the photonic lantern to a ring core fiber, we achieve low-loss coupling of OAM modes while maintaining high contrast spiral phase patterns. These results demonstrate the potential of photonic lanterns for generating complex optical beams.

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Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Sergio Leon-Saval, Zahoora Sanjabi Eznaveh, Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Giovanni Milione, Kai Shi, Benn Thomsen, David J. Richardson, and Yongmin Jung "Generation of orbital angular momentum beams using all-fiber photonic lanterns (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10549, Complex Light and Optical Forces XII, 105490T (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292195

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